Sony's digital music clip is cool, but treats users like potential criminals

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Sony's Vaio Music Clip digital music product is sleek, light, great-looking, great-sounding and insulting to the evaluator. Sony's software, OpenMG complies with the recording industry's rules for copyright protection, called SDMI but in doing so, has offered consumers a product that is clumsy and irritating and assumes the consumer is a crook. Consumers should have the right to freely refill digital music players.

Portable Cassette Recorders, Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Sony Corp., Portable stereos, SNE, Sony VAIO Music Clip (MP3 player/device)

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Now that's portable: Nomad Jukebox holds more than 1,500 songs

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Creative Technology introduces the Nomad Jukebox, a sturdy music player that can hold more than 1,500 songs in MP3 format. The Nomad sells for $499 and can be loaded via a USB port. The device can also record from a stereo system. Songs may be organized on the LCD screen menu and owners may create their own playlists.

Digital Audio Disc Players, Compact disc players, Creative Technology

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New Bose wave radio for PCs isn't in tune with consumer needs

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Bose is presenting the $450 Wave/PC System to compete with new audio systems that will play MP3 files from personal computers or compact discs. The unit has excellent speakers, an AM/FM tuner and remote control which can be controled by a PC. The remote can be used to transmit Internet radio stations, stored-music files or CDs through the Wave/PC, though the author feels RealJukebox and MusicMatch performed this task better. In fact, the Wave/PC was considered a somewhat unneeded technology, especially for the price.

Product introduction, Audio Devices NEC, Software, Computer hardware, Product Announcement, Column, Bose Corp., Software product introduction, Hardware product introduction, Audio equipment, Bose Wave/pc Interactive Audio System (Sound processing equipment)

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